Online Treatment Center In Pakistan
Online Treatment Center In Pakistan: As access to internet has grown across Pakistan, healthcare in Pakistan have been revolutionized allowing people to interact with doctors online. Instead of travelling for hours from villages or wait in a queue at clinics for medical help you can access a medical help online.
It is also beneficial for women doctors who has the challenge of tying a knot after getting a degree and don’t get a chance to practice medicine in clinics.
Sehat Kahani Program Karachi
In Pakistan, a Karachi based health tech startup, Sehat Kahani, has deployed Skype to solve both problems at once by bringing work to the doctors and medical advice to the villages, allowing people with limited mobility because of geography or culture to interact online.
You would have to pay a normal fee of Rs.100 and can speak face to face through video conferencing to a doctor in Karachi. Doctor at Sehat kahani told that the program is empowering for stay at home mothers who also happen to be doctors. “It suits us, we donot need to go outside and can continue our practice even sitting at home,” a doctor shared.
The basic aim of program is to bring back female doctors who quit medical profession for one reason or another. They can continue their profession and can examine the patients while sitting at home.
Online Clinic In KPK
The Bhosa clinic opened last September and since then has seen hundreds of patients each month, demonstrating the need for the female doctors’ skills. The clinic in Bhosa operates simply: a nurse examines the patient and sends all the information to the doctor, who then consults with the patient via Skype before making a diagnosis.
Pakistan First Telemedicine Online Treatment Center Mansehra project is part of the provincial government’s e-governance efforts providing facilities to approximately 23,000 people of the area through online services.
E-ilaj Program
The local government is also becoming active to promote online health care by setting up an e-ilaj, or e-treatment, center in a village called Bilahi, with plans to expand in other remote areas of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. KPK Government has initiated work with a local internet provider to bring medical advice to some 15 villages with a population of more than 27,000 people in a rural area of KPK where doctors are few.
Over the last 5 years, more than 50,000 patients have been treated in such clinics in the provinces of Punjab, Sindh, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and in a remote village in the Margalla Hills next to Islamabad.